Louisiana
South Africa’s Pilani Bubu has ‘jumped off the shoulder of giants’ to create music filled with tradition
The singer-songwriter has always straddled between the worlds of globalization and the traditions of her homeland.
Storms and rising sea levels threaten to wipe out French language in Louisiana’s bayou country
Hurricane Ida adds misery to 'Cancer Alley': Part II
Hurricane Ida adds misery to 'Cancer Alley': Part I
Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater
From Louisiana to Taiwan, environmental activists stand up to a major plastics company
Formosa Plastics, a Taiwanese plastics company, intends to build a complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana, a region already known as "Cancer Alley." Environmental activist Anne Rolfes faces criminal charges for a protest action she took to call attention to the company's history of harm.
US seafood workers fight unsafe job conditions amid pandemic
A coronavirus outbreak among workers at a Louisiana crawfish processing plant kicked off a legal battle with their employers over dangerous working conditions during the pandemic. Many of them are migrants on seasonal visas.
Immigrant ‘digital first responders’ provide vital services. They're in a financial crisis.
The news media has become a vital resource during the coronavirus pandemic — especially outlets serving immigrant communities. But those organizations are suffering from the same financial crisis bigger media outlets are experiencing.
US deportation flights risk spreading coronavirus globally
US officials say that immigration enforcement must continue, pandemic or not. But deporting people who may have been exposed to coronavirus in detention facilities risks spreading the disease to countries unequipped to deal with COVID-19.
Can Tulane University’s monkeys help the global fight against the coronavirus?
Monkeys at the Tulane National Primate Research Center have been infected with the coronavirus. Eventually, the animals will be tested with potential vaccines.
Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone
Farm pollutants from multiple states feed a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimpers pay the cost.
The Mississippi: Pushed to the brink
Up and down the Mississippi River, new pressures are being put on America’s inland hydro highway, which helps deliver US goods and commodities to the rest of the world and allows trade flows to return. The strain on the river system is only becoming more acute with the impacts of climate change.
A new book tells the stories of people coping with a changing American shoreline
Across the United States, it doesn’t take a devastating storm for scientists and citizens to see the unwelcome transformations that climate change is causing right now.
Federal judge halts Louisiana pipeline
A federal Judge has temporarily halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline on environmental grounds. The pipeline would cut across Louisiana’s pristine Atchafalaya Basin in order to connect the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Gulf coast.
In a hungry little insect, a big threat to Louisiana’s coast
A tiny invasive bug loves the cane that grows along the mouth of the Mississippi River. Can it be stopped?